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Imagine if you had to buy a whole album every time you wanted to hear a song.
by sxates 9y ago
Imagine if you had to buy a whole album every time you wanted to hear a song.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoBefore you ever get to hear the song.
- vertex-four 9y agoYou used to. People did. Now most people stream on Spotify for free, and the hardcore listeners buy albums, and practically nobody buys singles.
- sxates 9y agoWe've always had free streaming in the form of radio.
- vertex-four 9y agoThe point is that you didn't get to pick what you wanted to listen to. It's fundamentally different. If you liked a song enough to want to listen to it on demand, you had to buy the album.
- Aloha 9y agoThat made sense with the distribution medium of the time - much as a newspaper subscription made sense for a dead-tree medium of distribution - we've not been there for a long time.
- vertex-four 9y agoPerhaps. Though you'd think there's been more than enough research to show that people don't buy individual articles. People don't even really buy individual movies any more, in my experience. Anyway, Blendle exists now, so we'll see in a couple of years whether this actually does become the standard way of reading the news. I somehow doubt it.
- smileysteve 9y agoBut it's not that. With publishers, you get access to daily or weekly content, a whole collection of it, for a month. It's like Netflix if they had a "curated" collection and a lot of originals. So it's basically exactly like Netflix or HBO Go.
- sxates 9y agoExcept there are hundreds of them, not just a handful of consolidated sources. What we need is Netflix for Newspapers - that'd be great!
- smileysteve 9y agoAP Articles represent the quality of hundreds of sources :-)